A postmodern family is a family, which has been
stripped down from the extended family model
consisting of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and
cousins all living together. The postmodern family
is an "anything goes family." It can include
stepmothers, stepfathers, half brothers and
sisters, and many aunts, uncles, and grandparents.
The family that used to be economically dependent
on the male now has the women in the work force as
well. The postindustrial economy deals with how
people today have mu...

Book Review: The Condition of Postmodernity, David
Harvey is well-known in social theory circles for
books like Social Justice and the City (1973), The
Limits to Capital (1982), The Urbanization of
Capital (1985), and Consciousness and The Urban
Experience (1985) - all seminal attempts to chart
the relatively new and unexplored interface
between political economy and urban geography. The
Condition of Postmodernity is a significant new
work by Harvey that situates postmodern theory
within a broad...

Postmodern materialism and sub semantic cultural
theory 1. Structuralist rationalism and the sub
capitalist paradigm of reality In the works of
Gibson, a predominant concept is the concept of
truth. The primary theme of the works of Gibson is
not narrative, but neo narrative. But the closing
/ opening distinction prevalent in Gibson's
Neuromancer is also evident in Id oru, although in
a more sense. Lyotard's model of sub dialectic
Marxism suggests that the significance of the poet
is significant...

Michael D rach December 8 Philosophy Research
Essay Society currently exists within a sphere of
"reality" that can be classified as post-modern,
or superseding the modern. This is a social
condition that has come under much scrutiny and
criticism in recent years, and its very being has
been the subject of a great deal of debate. It is
a very difficult concept to understand and
classify, due to its endless interpretations.
However, there is a somewhat general consensus
that is considerably easier...

Sociology 210 Exam #2 (Essay #4) When sociologists
think of the postmodern society, shopping malls
are most likely the first thing to come to mind.
It can be easily argued that "shopping malls are
the cathedrals of postmodern society" Times have
changed since Marx argued that who you are is what
you do or since Durkheim argued that who you are
depends on your religion. Nowadays, who you are is
what you buy. People all over go to shopping malls
to make their lives easier than past generations.
Th...

"Modernity" is that period roughly associated with
twentieth century Western ideas about art
(although traces of it in emergent forms can be
found in the nineteenth century as well), in which
science established facts, political theory
established the social state, secularism overcame
religious opinion, and the notion of shame was
denied or explained away with various social
conventions. It was an era dominated by the
thought of Freud and Marx. Its tendency was toward
the legitimacy of the socia...

During the 1960 s and 1970 s movements emerged
such as second wave feminism, civil rights and gay
"liberation" whose previously silenced and
marginalized voices suggested that the white male
was no longer the only hero of the story. These
voices variously and collectively claimed the
right to speak in their own name and attempted to
foster a sense of group "identity" as a way of
resisting the systematic oppression that was
experienced by each group in different ways. At
the same time post modern...